Same-Sex Marriage
Within the Gay Right’s Movement, a movement that
grew out of the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements of the 1960s and 70s,
there are as many issues facing activists today as there were forty years
ago. Lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender and transsexual people,
and their heterosexual allies are working for changes that include the
passage of civil rights laws to include the rights of queer people, stricter
hate crime laws, equal housing and work place protection, decriminalization
of sodomy, parenting rights, and the repeal of anti-same-sex marriage laws
already in place, to name a few. An issue that has both strong support
and vehement opposition even within the queer community is the legalization
of same-sex marriage. Over the course of this semester, we hope to learn
more about this controversial issue, the arguments by queer people who
are for or against, and the place of marriage rights for same-sex couples
within the larger movement as a whole.
Organizations and Social Networks